Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum, Acropolis Collection: 1.921
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 300.16 Bentz, M., Panathenäische Preisamphoren, Eine athenische Vasengattung und ihre Funktion vom 6.-4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. 18. Beih. zur Antiken Kunst (Basel, 1998): PL.7.6011 Graef, B. and Langlotz, E., Die antiken Vasen von der Akropolis zu Athen 1 (Berlin, 1925): PL.59.921A-D
CAVI Lemma: Frs. of BF Panathenaic amphora (?). From Athens. Manner of Princeton Painter.
Mnesiades, potter (?). Third quarter sixth. Before 530.
CAVI Subject: A: Athena (no columns). B: hoplitodromoi.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: Behind Athena, vertically: Μνεσ[--, retr. B: at the top: διαυλυ̣,
retr.{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the upsilon is in the break, hence the word need not be complete. διαυλυ
for διαυλο (with long o)? For upsilon for long closed o, see AttScr (1990), 162.
Formerly read: διαυλ{λ}[---, for διαυλ[οδρομοι] or the like.
CAVI Comments: The shape is uncertain: see Beazley. - Possibly from a signature of the
potter Mnesiades, although Beazley 314 says the lettering is different.
Otherwise a kalos-inscription as Graef suggests. Cf. AttScr. Brandt considers
the frs. to be from a Panathenaic, Graef, probably so. Neils thinks this was
probably a prize vase, perhaps with three inscriptions as New York 1978.11.13.:
behind Athena, the potter's signature Mnes[iades]; the prize inscription at
left, now missing; and on B: men's stadion (sprint) [this is a very free
interpretation]. Mnesiades was the potter of a vase in Cairo, which he signed
and dedicated; and the dedicator of a bronze statue with Andokides on the
Acropolis (DAA 213-16). N. thinks that since all of these inscriptions are ca.
540-530, they all refer to the same man. Cf. also D.G. Kyle (1992), 205 n. 60.
CAVI Number: 0998
AVI Bibliography: Graef–Langlotz (1925–33), i, pl. 39. — ABV (1956), 300/16, 314, 670. — Brandt
(1978), 4/22. — AttScr (1990), no. 1199. — Neils (1992), 41 and n. 68.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
